High school girl passed drug test but is suspended for smelling like weed
A North Carolina teenager was suspended for possession of drugs despite the fact that she passed a drug test. However, she was punished simply because of the smell of weed.
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According to WNCN, Garner Magnet High School sophomore Jakayla Johnson said that a school resource officer smelled marijuana in the hall and interrupted her Chinese class looking for the source of the smell.
“I was feeling embarrassed because they called me out of everybody,” Jakayla said, noting that the officer had singled her out after only five minutes of searching. “They told me to spread my fingers and they smelled my fingers,” she added.
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According to Wake County School documents, “It was explained to Jakayla that for her hands to smell so pungently of marijuana she would have to have possessed it in her hands at some recent point in time.”
Jakayla’s mother, Tameka, said that she was shocked when the school called to notify her that her daughter had been suspended for five days for possession of marijuana. “I said not my child. You have the wrong child, because I know my child,” she said.
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Tameka took her daughter to get tested for drugs and brought the clean test back to the school, hoping to get the suspension reversed and to obtain an apology, but the school stated that she had been suspended for possession, not drug use.
For now, Jakayla’s appeal date is set for May 18.
